Intel Core i7-11700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

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Price

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$ 340.39
$ 74.99
$ 265.40 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7093 points
19% slightly better overall score
5935 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9522 points
19% slightly better gaming score
7977 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6319 points
19% slightly better multitasking score
5270 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6131 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score
5105 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7705 points
41% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
5451 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.14 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
141.88 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8506 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
7589 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1833 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8582 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7653 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2114 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1872 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
3.6 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed
4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

200th of 1,127
272nd of 1,127

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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